Nostalgia in Video Games
The video game industry and video gamers are in a peculiar bind. Depending on who you ask, gaming is either more popular and profitable than ever, in spite of the…
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Evil Orcs: Accusations of Racism in Dungeons and Dragons
In the 1980s, the popular role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) was hit by a moral panic that lasted into the 1990s: some people became worried that, because some of…
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Historical Revisionism and Critiques of Video Games
On 21 August 2020, Activision released a teaser trailer for its upcoming first-person shooter franchise Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. It attracted social media indignation for its use…
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How Games Journalism Lost Its Soul
In the first decades of the 2000s, when the violent video game debate was at its height, games journalism (aimed at an audience of avid gamers) was at the forefront…
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